Plenty popping up on the Edmonton City Centre Airport, the Heritage Festival and Big Valley Jamboree are in the news before this weekend, mosquitoes are arriving, plus Vue asks a question about whether we should change our poet laureate.

And St. Albert baseball diamonds are burning up.

Dig in.

from the Edmonton Journal:

MLAs, Enbridge join fight for Edmonton airport (This comes as the airports authority prepares to shut down one of the runways. Hey, how did everyone miss all the months of debate, days of public hearings, and city council vote on the City Centre Airport LAST YEAR? Also, maybe Enbridge wants to keep its name out of headlines, you know, what with its devastating oil spill in Michigan and all.)

Edmonton airport upgrade 25% under budget (This would be at the Edmonton International Airport.)

A question of dollars … gadzillions of dollars (Arena, Indy, and more questions from Dan Barnes.)

Historic Edmonton church saved from demolition

Money transfer scam targeting seniors

Giant robot dinosaurs stalk boreal forest

This bad news: Meat Loaf cancels Edmonton gig can be offset with this good news: Mickey Rooney coming to Sherwood Park

from the Edmonton Sun:

Heritage Festival goes 100% green, say organizers

City’s cat crisis (People are tossing cats like trash.)

‘Hope on the horizon’ for MS sufferers

BVJ to text storm alerts (Learning from last year.)

Holiday demand pumps up gas prices

from 630CHED/iNews880:

“Mini me” mosquitos invade metro

from CBC Edmonton:

MLA lured by money to delay joining Wildrose (Although, to be fair, if he’s using his Independent research budget up before jumping ship, it makes sense. If.)

School construction to last into fall (It’s not like schools have a calendar on when they are in session or not.)

St. Alberta baseball association faces $20K bill (They only set their baseball diamonds on fire.)

from Global Edmonton:

Industrial fire now out

from Vue Weekly:

Citizen powered (Campus and community radio stations, like our own CJSR, are going to get a few government-mandated bucks.)

Disappearing act (What did happen to that study on the oilsands and water resources?)

Safe haven

Changing of the guard (Should we dump the poet laureate for a songwriter laureate?)

from SEE Magazine:

Arena deal does not add up (And Fish Griwskowsky wants Katz and Co. to know, For the record, downtown is not dead yet.)

Carnie folk

One more day until the long weekend!

Long weekend? Yes, please!

Long weekend!

Woooooooooo!

A note: The Great Divide Waterfall won’t be running this long weekend. We’ll get through this together. It’s unknown when it will be running again.

Alright, the big one this weekend is the Servus Heritage Festival. 34 years running and full of culture and tasty food, it’s all at Hawrelak Park. Here’s some transportation info.

Music-wise you’ve got The City Streets playing a “moving” show tonight at the Pawn Shop, and Blink 182 is tonight. The Moody Blues play Sunday, at the Winspear.

I’m going to try and rein in my excitement, but I do need to tell you about a show at the Mayfield Dinner Theatre. It’s because Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks stars…Peter Scolari! Let me repeat. Peter. Scolari. You’re welcome.

Latitude 53 has “Draw,” a marathon of, well, drawing.

The Edmonton Capitals are home this weekend, and for $5 a throw you can help them fight breast cancer and try to set a World Record for pitches thrown.

We told you a little while ago about The Laugh Shop opening a new location on Whyte Avenue. It happens Saturday night.

Don’t forget about farmers’ markets, improv, live music in pretty much every bar, new movies in theatre…and so on.